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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

velocity, concentric cycles, video production, master clockmaker

College

Fine Arts and Communications

Department

Art

Abstract

As citizens of contemporary Western culture, we have inherited a set of ideas about the nature of human life. A large part of our understanding of the world is based in the ideas of the Modern era. Though the majority of the populace may be unaware of the influence that the past has on our contemporary lives we cannot escape our modernist heritage. A large part of the worldview that we inherited is the linearity of time. There is an interesting contradiction between modernism’s linear time and the Cartesian idea of God as the master clockmaker. A clock functions based on repetitive, concentric (the second within the minute within the hour…), cyclical motion, though it helps us maintain our supposed control over our linear lives.

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